Municipal Party System Gets Failing Grade...
From Communities
"The party system by way of Provincial and Federal representation is what has shone the glaring light on this idea of failure. MLAs and MPs beholden to party instead of constituents.
While this may not be the case with all of them…it’s hard to remember a time when a Party Member was willing to cross the aisle to support their constituents and Not Be Removed from the Party.
We’ve seen this most recently with the UCP in Alberta after Lesser Slave Lake MLA - Scott Sinclair - was removed from the UCP Caucus for expressing his discontent with the Provincial Budget put forward
https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/municipal-party-system-gets-failing
Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........
